(video originally uploaded to Youtube by the New Internationalist)

On the 4th of December,the "Toxic Tour" defeated the French protest ban long enough to stage a disruption of the corporate "Solutions 21" event at the COP21 climate summit in Paris. Both protesters and reporters were physically dragged out by undercover cops. One of the targetted corporate presentors had gone so to present gas fracking as a "solution to the future" even though methane leakage from fracking is a major contributor to climate change. Protest bans and house arrests of organizers have failed to protect this kind of outrage from all dissent as the fossil fuel industry had no doubt hoped.

Police attempts to censor coverage of this disruption also failed, as the existance of this video proves. As for the undercover cops, they appeared to be poorly armed and this intended to suppress dissent rather than secure anything against armed terrorists.

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